Researchers drilling boreholes in 2017 under the Antarctic, discovered under the ice in a sediment core near Pine Island Glacier, (75°10′S 100°0′W) near the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica fossil roots, pollen, spores and amber from a 90 million year old rainforest using a CT scan (computed tomography). The fossils would come from a dense […]

It pays to have a short memory and to try to do good at first. There have been a number of scientific studies on interpersonal and transactional relationships, many starting from a simplistic point with pigeonholing, and trying to build from that. When I was studying statistics at university in the 70’s I sort of […]

UK government planning to rely on mainly wind and solar for power, with nuclear as a backup, but power from solar and wind set to reduce to nearly zero this week, Britain’s two planned mainly foreign financed and run nuclear facilities still way behind schedule and many times the planned cost, with most other older […]

How common are massive solar storms? The problem is historical data, the only real event that has been recorded in modern times being the Carrington event of 1859. This itself was only noticed because Richard Carrington and Richard Hodgson happened to be looking at the sun to record the event, and linked it to a […]

The outage today, 19/07/2024, to do with Microsoft and Crowdstrike was probably cloud related. It’s the old problem of resilience, with limited alternative avenues. Everybody having their own storage and their own access for things, allowed for with distributed services. Clouds are extremely centralised, so if there are problems you lose the lot, airlines, rail […]

Nobody is sure how common magnetic reversals in the world are. They are generally considered non-periodic and happen once every 450,000 years, but that may be just down to lack of discovery, misclassification, or simply ignoring them, not what really happened. A similar thing, archaeologists are constantly finding new civilisations almost every year now that […]

Blackbirds, Turdus merula seem to becoming rarer in the south. Blackbirds may be a vector for encephalitis through the Usutu virus via culex pipiens, the common house or northern mosquito that also bites humans, transferring unknown levels of infection. The southern areas seem to be hosting more mosquito type populations that are slowly moving northwards […]

One of things that doesn’t seem to be being reported much is the change in the suns activity. It’s almost glaring by it’s absence. We are now on the 29th day of extra solar activity. The sun varies quite a lot in activity and spikes quite often, but this spikes are usually short lived, many […]

All human life comes from a common source. We are aware that some groups can deal with viruses common to some rare in others and that a 5,000-10,000 year separation can cause catastrophes when two groups meet again, both probably having at some time exposure in the past. Viruses maybe contain 30,000 RNA bases, practically […]

The geomagnetic pole is an area of the earth where the magnetic is seen to be vertical, also called the dip pole. Normally they wander about the earth near the north and south poles in a more or less haphazard way according to the molten core of the earth below us. The earth spins on […]